Chapter 13 – Lac; Gums; Resins and Other Vegetable Saps and Extracts

HS Code Range: 1301 to 1302
This chapter includes natural gums, resins, balsams, saps, and various plant-based extracts used in food, pharma, cosmetics, adhesives, incense, etc.

🔹 1301 – Natural Gums, Resins, and Balsams

1301.10.00 Lac (stick lac, seed lac, shellac – raw/processed)

1301.20.00 Gum Arabic (Acacia Senegal)

1301.90.00 Other natural gums and resins (Guar gum, Tragacanth)

✅ Common Items:

• Lac – used in varnishes, polishes
  
  

• Gum Arabic – food stabilizer, ink, soft drinks
  
  

• Guar gum – food thickener, textile sizing, oil drilling
  
  

🔹 1302 – Vegetable Saps and Extracts; Pectins, Mucilages, and Thickeners

1302.11.00 Opium extract (for pharma use only)

1302.12.00 Extracts of liquorice root

1302.13.00 Extracts of hops

1302.14.00 Saps/extracts of pyrethrum or roots (natural pesticide)

1302.19.00 Other vegetable extracts (neem, aloe vera, etc.)

1302.20.00 Pectic substances, pectinates, pectates

1302.31.00 Agar-agar (used in food, pharma, cosmetics)

1302.32.00 Mucilages/thickeners from locust bean, guar, etc.

1302.39.00 Other thickeners and binders

1302.40.00 Preparations of resins and derivatives